Las Palabras, Somers Gallery 2025
Adam Moore, Dispersal V – IV – VII (detail) (2025)
Curated in Las Palabras is Dispersal V – IV – VII (2025), the last in a series of prints combining self portraiture and abstract landscapes. Photomicrographs of local marine ecologies growing at the London Docklands are used to reimagine Soufriére’s distinctive Caribbean landscape home to the Pitons. A landscape composition with ecologies, this design connects the artist’s parental origins through marine life and water, and fashions a self-portrait that depicts how his parents and their origins merged forming a new trajectory. An experimental sequential pattern of reductions handling pluriformities using traditional lithography, the subtle, delicate details and textures and shadows of the blind emboss embody the paradoxes of memory and distil the complexities of place:
Adam Moore, Dispersal V – IV – VII (detail) (2025)
the (in)durability, transformation and reconstitution of memory; how we are touched and imprinted upon by places we live; and what remains after memories fade. Faint profound impressions, reified feeling states, semi-tangible grooves, marks left by people and places, growing deeper. The print series A History of Dispersals (2025) resolved with Dispersal V – IV – VII, the last edition in the sequence documenting the artist’s minimalist enquiry into memory and place.
Adam Moore, Dispersal V – IV – VII (2025). Blind emboss on paper, monochrome white, 57 x 38 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Adam Moore, After Lands (the song). Site drawing in white chalk. Somer’s Gallery, London.
After Lands (the song) is a performance with drawing, dance, and sound reflecting on the artist’s background and his relationship to his mother, Yvonne, inspired by Nayirrah Waheed’s land from her collection of poems Salt. A choreography between the artist and the site they inhabit in the group exhibition Las Palabras curated by Natalia Valencia Arango at Somers Gallery, London, After Lands envelopes performer, audience, and artworks in a maternal aural landscape where the artist encounters the feminine as a source speaking life, craft, and technology into being, amplifying Arango’s sensuous curation.
Adam Moore, After Lands (the song). Performance 13 minutes. Somers Gallery, London 2025.
Adam Moore, After Lands (the song) (2025). Sound and editing, drawing and performance, 13 minutes. Photo by Emmanuela Graziano.